The lawyer cross-examined the witness , trying his best to flummox .
律师盘问证人，努力使他茫然失措。
These patterns flummox researchers and , according to wilson , they will continue to remain mysterious until we look at culture for an answer .
这些问题让擅下断语的研究人员大感窘迫，而据威尔逊之言，只有当我们在文化中寻求答案时他们才不再神秘。
Ambivalent teams and individuals that are unable to make or hold to decisions can flummox discussions as easily as stubbornness can .
充满矛盾的、不能做出决定或不能坚持决定的团体和个人，如同顽固者一样很容易使谈判陷入僵局。
He kept the party quiet during four months of student demonstrations against rises in tuition fees in quebec-a silence that seemed to flummox the conservative attack machine .
Some aspects of reality - a unified theory of physics , or a theory of consciousness - might elude our understanding simply because they 're beyond the powers of human brains , just as surely as quantum mechanics would flummox a chimpanzee .
